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    Comparing Canon PowerShot Digital ELPH with Sony DSC-P10 There are many good digital cameras spread around the global market, and inevitably this will make many costumers confused since they don’t know which digital camera to have. Canon, Casio, Kodak, Nikon, Olympus, Sony are the examples of well-known digital camera manufacturers and they have some really good products such as Canon PowerShot S400, Casio Exilim EX-Z3, Kodak Professional DCS Pro 14n, etc. Since I have Canon PowerShot Digital

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    In Mary Oliver’s “Crossing the Swamp”, the speaker compares a swamp to the struggles and hardships in life that fight against her. The speaker repeatedly contrasts herself to the swamp to emphasize the vastness of the swamp, conveying how the speaker understands the hardships that come with life. The speaker describes the swamp as a “wet thick cosmos [...] ーthe nugget”. The paradox compares the vast “cosmos” with a small golden “nugget,” contrasting how the experience the speaker is going through

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    undisciplined and under supplied forces to fight the Red Sticks at Emuckfau and Enotochopco. He barely escaped with his life and was forced to retreat to Fort Strother. After winter, in March of 1814, Jackson left Fort Strother with the intent to extend supply lines by building a new fort which came to be known as Fort Williams. This fort was closer to Horseshoe bend and General Jackson was determined to achieve victory and defeat the Red Sticks at the

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    Follow me. 'That fucker, he heard my conversation. Of course he can see it all.' You growled at the voice. The only difference was that his voice was echoing throughout the attraction which made Springtrap alert. 'I'm here to save you, don't worry.' You thought as you looked at Springtrap. "It's obvious that it's a trap and I don't want you to get slaughtered." "Why? So you can suffer even more? Don't be so stubborn, I'm not dying anytime soon." Springtrap growled under

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    South Park - it either makes you cringe or grin ear to ear. The latter will most likely be the result for the millennial crowd. With the show closing in on two decades it remains as strong and relevant as it was in 1997. However, it isn't entirely without fault given the amount of time Matt and Trey shrewdly concoct an episode. The one week deadline has on very rare occasions diminished the core viewers expectation. But more often what usually follows are extremely memorable moments that wrapped

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    There is a little evil deep down beneath most people. Lord of the Flies, by Nobel-Prize winning English author William Golding,describes the journey of a group of young boys who wake up stranded on an deserted island and describes how they try to survive, all while trying to get rescued. The struggles of survival demonstrate the savagery and transformation of some boys adapting to the environment on the island. Many of the boys become wild animals although there are three in particular who show their

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    Happy Gilmore is a comedic 90's movie about the transition from an ineffective hockey player to a talented golfer. This is a 1996 film, Adam Sandler, who portrays Happy Gilmore faces few obstacles when learning how to play golf. The reason why he joins a golf tournament was that he needed the money to save his grandmother's house. His grandmother has not pay taxes for past 10 years so she owed $270,00 otherwise her home would be lost. Happy Gilmore is a naïve and absurd character that struggles with

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    Hockey Stick History

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    Many of you are perhaps aware of the “World’s Oldest Known Hockey Stick” that was in the news a couple of years ago. Its most recent former owner, Mark Presley of Berwick, NS, sold it to the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Quebec in January of 2015 for $300,000. Presley happened upon the stick during the year 2000 as it hung on the wall of a North Sydney barber shop. The building’s proprietor at the time, George Ferneyhiugh, who has since retired from the haircutting trade, had it hanging

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    air and gave off a sense of warmth. The stick, however, was more of a tree stump, pitiful and almost gone. Human pulled out another white stick, but this one was standing tall and proud. He moved the tip of this new stick to the previous one’s, and the ball of light instantly moved onto the next stick, the other half of it left behind going out, with only some gray, wispy smoke left to signify its earlier presence. The Human chuckled and switched out the sticks, leaving the new one with the ball of

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    George bends over and looks down his wooden pool cue. He pulls the cue back and forth aiming at the center of the cue ball, with a perfect triangle of marble pool balls behind it. He pulls the cue back further, leans on his back foot and pushes the white cue ball as hard as he cam into the balls. The balls ricochet with a crisp crack, they meaninglessly bounce around the table without purpose. “Nice shot georgy… for a girl. All bust no balls, that's what I say.” Mike said. “Mike beat me once then

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